HDT Torana XU-1 V8 ‘Beast’

It was in many ways a conventional machine: a factory car fitted with an engine which had actually been intended to have been shoehorned under the bonnet of the LJ Torana XU-1, had it not been for the 1972 Supercar scare. But what makes the HDT XU-1 Sports Sedan a bit of an odd-job is the way the thing was executed: surprisingly unsophisticated for a works car and, perhaps fittingly, somewhat reminiscent of Brock’s A30-Holden. It really was a beast.